After his first week at school, a Grade 5 student in Quebec City warns other kids who may be going back to school to pack their own hand sanitizer and to lower their expectations about excitement.
TORONTO -- Sebastian Weiss is advising other kids who may be returning to school to bring their own hand sanitizer because the stuff at his Quebec City school “smells pretty bad.”
The return to school is optional for families and is only for the elementary grades. High school and junior collegestudents will not go back until the fall. Class sizes are limited to 15 children and officials expected about 60 per cent of eligible students would return this week.Playground equipment is still off-limits and schools are limiting the number of kids out a recess at one time. Desks are spaced out. Physical education and library time is no more. There are no school lunches, either.Students are reminded often to wash their hands.
Premier Francois Legault has answered by saying the risk of the virus is limited in young people and that children, especially vulnerable ones, are much better off to be in school with their teachers and friends.
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